Trav

7:32 pm on Apr 18, 2011 (gmt 0)

Hmm, not quite the flood of responses I was hoping for : ) Well, if anyone should see this and even has a link to some reading which can clarify this for me, I'd be mighty appreciative. Feel free to post it via a private message if it's not appropriate for the board.

Trav

g1smd

7:59 pm on Apr 18, 2011 (gmt 0)

Posting this in the Apache sub-forum would have brought a near-instantaneous response. :)

Trav

8:13 pm on Apr 18, 2011 (gmt 0)

Thanks g1smd, wasn't sure if it verged more on the domain side or the Apache side. If I may, I have a couple of follow-ups on your response.

When you say 'point all domains at your server', would this more verbosely be "make the A record for each domain point at the IP of your server"? I ask, because I'm trying to understand the importance of CNAME's here.

Second, in that .htaccess, would that not make it so that ANY domain pointed at the IP would be redirected to the WWW, and if so, does that imply any sort of security risk? I.E. a competitor points the domain www.spammy-widgets.com at my IP, and because of the .htaccess it resolves to my homepage with a 301.